besmearing

Ken Starr sees the besmearing of his team as part of the pattern of the Clintons' six-year obstruction of justice.

The man permitting the prolonged besmearing of the next Secretary of Defense is his successor as Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Sam Nunn.

Maria Cooper Janis, the dead star's daughter, considerably angered by this besmearing of her father's character, put me in touch with her mother, Veronica Cooper Converse, a 75-year-old lady who is hopping mad.